Stephanie
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- Jul 11, 2004
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This is happening right before our eyes folks...Obama and his Democrat party comrades are stirring up class and race warfare....you better wake up
SNIP:
By JULIE SZYDLOWSKI
Two recent incidents -- the US Supreme Court's decision to uphold Michigan's ban on affirmative action and LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling's bigoted comments - underscore what the left so badly wants us to believe: that white America is inherently, hopelessly racist. Unfortunately it seems the left - which ignores racism committed by non-whites -- wants to use racism to impose draconian control measures on private citizens, while convincing minorities the left is their only hope for justice.
The Court's ruling on Michigan's affirmative action ban, for instance, should be considered a victory to anyone claiming to want a color-blind society that judges people on character and ability, not skin color. The Michigan law rightly says racism is wrong and therefore race cannot be considered in university admissions. But, defying logic, liberals call this racist. In her dissenting opinion, in fact, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Court's ruling strengthens the barriers erected against racial minorities.
But Sotomayor ignores statistics that show minority enrollment in public university systems is up, even where bans on affirmative action are in place. In other words, institutions can and do implement outreach efforts without being forced to do so.
Still Sotomayor stresses that equality can only be achieved through artificial means and that minorities should be held to a lower standard to achieve this so-called equality. Liberal news franchises across America were quick to celebrate Sotomayor's "passionate" opinion and denounce the "conservative justices" for their "racist" views - all while plying the public with sordid examples of racism as proof that artificial intervention is needed. But what does this accomplish other than to promote division and anger on both sides by underscoring the idea that minorities are helpless victims of white society, and that only the left is interested in making things right?
The media are salivating even more over the vile comments made by Donald Sterling to his girlfriend, who illegally secretly recorded their private conversations. Saying he didn't want his girlfriend bringing black people to basketball games, Sterling's comments were ugly and people are right to be offended. But does it really warrant the 24-hour coverage it's getting? Well, yes, if it can serve the purpose of painting all whites as racists. Even President Obama felt it worthy to weigh in on the issue all the way from Malaysia.
But if Obama is really offended by racism, why hasn't he said one word about Michigan resident Steven Utash, the white man severely beaten by a mob of black men?
Obama once said if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, the black teen who was killed in a 2012 altercation with "white Hispanic" George Zimmerman. Obama had no trouble exploiting the death of a teenager to stoke the embers of America's smoldering race problem -- and probably garner sympathy votes to boot in what was then an election year. But would Obama think Utash's assailants look like his would-be son, or does that case not evoke the same type of emotion Obama can use to his party's benefit in this election year?
Obama vocally condemned Zimmerman as part of America's race problem, but says nothing about his good friend, rapper Jay-Z, who publically wears a coaster-sized medallion of the Five Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam which holds that white people are "weak, wicked and inferior."
Likewise, Obama's never denounced Spike Lee's frequent and hateful anti-white rants, nor has our president made meaningful mention of the horrible "knockout" game where countless cases have been documented of black youths randomly punching white people, some fatally so.
Where are Eric Holder and Jessie Jackson on these incidents? Where are the vigils, the marches, the presidential press conferences? The left wants us to believe they're opposed to racism, but largely remain silent when it's committed by non-whites. In fact, to date, the only time Obama's Department of Justice has charged someone with a "hate crime" for the knockout game was when it was once perpetrated by a white man against a black man.
ALL of it here
COLUMN: Eradicating racism not what the left really wants - Opinion - Source Newspapers
Two recent incidents -- the US Supreme Court's decision to uphold Michigan's ban on affirmative action and LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling's bigoted comments - underscore what the left so badly wants us to believe: that white America is inherently, hopelessly racist. Unfortunately it seems the left - which ignores racism committed by non-whites -- wants to use racism to impose draconian control measures on private citizens, while convincing minorities the left is their only hope for justice.
The Court's ruling on Michigan's affirmative action ban, for instance, should be considered a victory to anyone claiming to want a color-blind society that judges people on character and ability, not skin color. The Michigan law rightly says racism is wrong and therefore race cannot be considered in university admissions. But, defying logic, liberals call this racist. In her dissenting opinion, in fact, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Court's ruling strengthens the barriers erected against racial minorities.
But Sotomayor ignores statistics that show minority enrollment in public university systems is up, even where bans on affirmative action are in place. In other words, institutions can and do implement outreach efforts without being forced to do so.
Still Sotomayor stresses that equality can only be achieved through artificial means and that minorities should be held to a lower standard to achieve this so-called equality. Liberal news franchises across America were quick to celebrate Sotomayor's "passionate" opinion and denounce the "conservative justices" for their "racist" views - all while plying the public with sordid examples of racism as proof that artificial intervention is needed. But what does this accomplish other than to promote division and anger on both sides by underscoring the idea that minorities are helpless victims of white society, and that only the left is interested in making things right?
The media are salivating even more over the vile comments made by Donald Sterling to his girlfriend, who illegally secretly recorded their private conversations. Saying he didn't want his girlfriend bringing black people to basketball games, Sterling's comments were ugly and people are right to be offended. But does it really warrant the 24-hour coverage it's getting? Well, yes, if it can serve the purpose of painting all whites as racists. Even President Obama felt it worthy to weigh in on the issue all the way from Malaysia.
But if Obama is really offended by racism, why hasn't he said one word about Michigan resident Steven Utash, the white man severely beaten by a mob of black men?
Obama once said if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, the black teen who was killed in a 2012 altercation with "white Hispanic" George Zimmerman. Obama had no trouble exploiting the death of a teenager to stoke the embers of America's smoldering race problem -- and probably garner sympathy votes to boot in what was then an election year. But would Obama think Utash's assailants look like his would-be son, or does that case not evoke the same type of emotion Obama can use to his party's benefit in this election year?
Obama vocally condemned Zimmerman as part of America's race problem, but says nothing about his good friend, rapper Jay-Z, who publically wears a coaster-sized medallion of the Five Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam which holds that white people are "weak, wicked and inferior."
Likewise, Obama's never denounced Spike Lee's frequent and hateful anti-white rants, nor has our president made meaningful mention of the horrible "knockout" game where countless cases have been documented of black youths randomly punching white people, some fatally so.
Where are Eric Holder and Jessie Jackson on these incidents? Where are the vigils, the marches, the presidential press conferences? The left wants us to believe they're opposed to racism, but largely remain silent when it's committed by non-whites. In fact, to date, the only time Obama's Department of Justice has charged someone with a "hate crime" for the knockout game was when it was once perpetrated by a white man against a black man.
SNIP:
By JULIE SZYDLOWSKI
Two recent incidents -- the US Supreme Court's decision to uphold Michigan's ban on affirmative action and LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling's bigoted comments - underscore what the left so badly wants us to believe: that white America is inherently, hopelessly racist. Unfortunately it seems the left - which ignores racism committed by non-whites -- wants to use racism to impose draconian control measures on private citizens, while convincing minorities the left is their only hope for justice.
The Court's ruling on Michigan's affirmative action ban, for instance, should be considered a victory to anyone claiming to want a color-blind society that judges people on character and ability, not skin color. The Michigan law rightly says racism is wrong and therefore race cannot be considered in university admissions. But, defying logic, liberals call this racist. In her dissenting opinion, in fact, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Court's ruling strengthens the barriers erected against racial minorities.
But Sotomayor ignores statistics that show minority enrollment in public university systems is up, even where bans on affirmative action are in place. In other words, institutions can and do implement outreach efforts without being forced to do so.
Still Sotomayor stresses that equality can only be achieved through artificial means and that minorities should be held to a lower standard to achieve this so-called equality. Liberal news franchises across America were quick to celebrate Sotomayor's "passionate" opinion and denounce the "conservative justices" for their "racist" views - all while plying the public with sordid examples of racism as proof that artificial intervention is needed. But what does this accomplish other than to promote division and anger on both sides by underscoring the idea that minorities are helpless victims of white society, and that only the left is interested in making things right?
The media are salivating even more over the vile comments made by Donald Sterling to his girlfriend, who illegally secretly recorded their private conversations. Saying he didn't want his girlfriend bringing black people to basketball games, Sterling's comments were ugly and people are right to be offended. But does it really warrant the 24-hour coverage it's getting? Well, yes, if it can serve the purpose of painting all whites as racists. Even President Obama felt it worthy to weigh in on the issue all the way from Malaysia.
But if Obama is really offended by racism, why hasn't he said one word about Michigan resident Steven Utash, the white man severely beaten by a mob of black men?
Obama once said if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, the black teen who was killed in a 2012 altercation with "white Hispanic" George Zimmerman. Obama had no trouble exploiting the death of a teenager to stoke the embers of America's smoldering race problem -- and probably garner sympathy votes to boot in what was then an election year. But would Obama think Utash's assailants look like his would-be son, or does that case not evoke the same type of emotion Obama can use to his party's benefit in this election year?
Obama vocally condemned Zimmerman as part of America's race problem, but says nothing about his good friend, rapper Jay-Z, who publically wears a coaster-sized medallion of the Five Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam which holds that white people are "weak, wicked and inferior."
Likewise, Obama's never denounced Spike Lee's frequent and hateful anti-white rants, nor has our president made meaningful mention of the horrible "knockout" game where countless cases have been documented of black youths randomly punching white people, some fatally so.
Where are Eric Holder and Jessie Jackson on these incidents? Where are the vigils, the marches, the presidential press conferences? The left wants us to believe they're opposed to racism, but largely remain silent when it's committed by non-whites. In fact, to date, the only time Obama's Department of Justice has charged someone with a "hate crime" for the knockout game was when it was once perpetrated by a white man against a black man.
ALL of it here
COLUMN: Eradicating racism not what the left really wants - Opinion - Source Newspapers
Two recent incidents -- the US Supreme Court's decision to uphold Michigan's ban on affirmative action and LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling's bigoted comments - underscore what the left so badly wants us to believe: that white America is inherently, hopelessly racist. Unfortunately it seems the left - which ignores racism committed by non-whites -- wants to use racism to impose draconian control measures on private citizens, while convincing minorities the left is their only hope for justice.
The Court's ruling on Michigan's affirmative action ban, for instance, should be considered a victory to anyone claiming to want a color-blind society that judges people on character and ability, not skin color. The Michigan law rightly says racism is wrong and therefore race cannot be considered in university admissions. But, defying logic, liberals call this racist. In her dissenting opinion, in fact, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the Court's ruling strengthens the barriers erected against racial minorities.
But Sotomayor ignores statistics that show minority enrollment in public university systems is up, even where bans on affirmative action are in place. In other words, institutions can and do implement outreach efforts without being forced to do so.
Still Sotomayor stresses that equality can only be achieved through artificial means and that minorities should be held to a lower standard to achieve this so-called equality. Liberal news franchises across America were quick to celebrate Sotomayor's "passionate" opinion and denounce the "conservative justices" for their "racist" views - all while plying the public with sordid examples of racism as proof that artificial intervention is needed. But what does this accomplish other than to promote division and anger on both sides by underscoring the idea that minorities are helpless victims of white society, and that only the left is interested in making things right?
The media are salivating even more over the vile comments made by Donald Sterling to his girlfriend, who illegally secretly recorded their private conversations. Saying he didn't want his girlfriend bringing black people to basketball games, Sterling's comments were ugly and people are right to be offended. But does it really warrant the 24-hour coverage it's getting? Well, yes, if it can serve the purpose of painting all whites as racists. Even President Obama felt it worthy to weigh in on the issue all the way from Malaysia.
But if Obama is really offended by racism, why hasn't he said one word about Michigan resident Steven Utash, the white man severely beaten by a mob of black men?
Obama once said if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, the black teen who was killed in a 2012 altercation with "white Hispanic" George Zimmerman. Obama had no trouble exploiting the death of a teenager to stoke the embers of America's smoldering race problem -- and probably garner sympathy votes to boot in what was then an election year. But would Obama think Utash's assailants look like his would-be son, or does that case not evoke the same type of emotion Obama can use to his party's benefit in this election year?
Obama vocally condemned Zimmerman as part of America's race problem, but says nothing about his good friend, rapper Jay-Z, who publically wears a coaster-sized medallion of the Five Percent Nation, an offshoot of the Nation of Islam which holds that white people are "weak, wicked and inferior."
Likewise, Obama's never denounced Spike Lee's frequent and hateful anti-white rants, nor has our president made meaningful mention of the horrible "knockout" game where countless cases have been documented of black youths randomly punching white people, some fatally so.
Where are Eric Holder and Jessie Jackson on these incidents? Where are the vigils, the marches, the presidential press conferences? The left wants us to believe they're opposed to racism, but largely remain silent when it's committed by non-whites. In fact, to date, the only time Obama's Department of Justice has charged someone with a "hate crime" for the knockout game was when it was once perpetrated by a white man against a black man.
